On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Zack Macomber wrote:
I have several Finale Allegro 2007 compositions that I would like to see in LilyPond. I can save my compositions as a MIDI file. When I drag that MIDI file onto the LilyPond shortcut on my desktop, a file gets written to where the MIDI file is with this message in it:
You can not drag a midifile to lilypond. Use the midi2ly tool to convert a midifile to a *.ly file. After that you can process this file with Lilypond. But don't expect miracles. You probably have to do some editing to the *.ly file first to get a good result. Maybe lot's of editing...
Sometimes it's even easier/faster to re-write the score completely in Lilypond syntax from scratch. MIDI is not the best format for musical scores.
A better way would be to export as MusicXML and use musicxml2ly before using Lilypond.
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